Just to clear up my side of the story:

Angel was working in cooperation with somebody else to do an ANH redux.
They were keeping it kinda secret (not TOO secret, as you can easily look at Angel's work on Deviantart) until more work had been completed.
Basically, I think the goal was to replace every single effect and matte painting.
I was helping Angel with VFX for a bit until he mysteriously disappeared. Not sure what's going to happen to his work now.

Now that's put to bed... back to ESB:R discussion.